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Interesting comments at the end of this article. Some people have it exactly right when they say Watada is no hero and that he was charged for disobeying a legal order and not for his beliefs.

It is easy to see why Tara McKelvey is the first supposed journalist to get close to Watada in more than a year, her article is a typical leftist antiwar hit piece.

Also, the link of the "recent release" they refer to is a Fox News piece of the Senate Intelligence Committee's report and almost two years old.

1 posted on 06/11/2008 12:36:08 PM PDT by jazusamo
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Sounds like Mr. Watada owns a yellow stripe...down his back.

He is a soldier. Soldiers obey orders.


2 posted on 06/11/2008 12:39:14 PM PDT by RexBeach
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GENERAL PATTON—— What would you do with him sir ????????


3 posted on 06/11/2008 12:39:40 PM PDT by Uncle George
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Ok then. Alrighty.

Then send him to Afghanistan. On a solo recon mission. Fresh, bright new BDU's. In the mountains. It's legal.

4 posted on 06/11/2008 12:40:43 PM PDT by llevrok (NOBAMANATION IN '08)
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Watada is no hero and that he was charged for disobeying a legal order and not for his beliefs.

He is a soldier. Soldiers obey orders.

He joined during the war. He obviously has an agenda.

Bust him down to E-1 and have him serve his commitment on "weeds and seeds"

5 posted on 06/11/2008 12:43:37 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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...Watada, who's now in legal limbo and being subtly punished at a desk job.

Is it punishment, or did they put him there so he can't f#$k up anything important?

6 posted on 06/11/2008 12:44:26 PM PDT by lesser_satan (Cthulu '08! Why vote for the lesser evil?)
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Check your history. This is willfull disobediance to orders and could be construde as cowardice. If memory serves the UCMJ stills lists those as offenses punishable by death by firing squad or some such less punishment. There was a time before we became to civilised that the answer would have been easy - find a convient wall and eight soldiers with loaded weaponds.


7 posted on 06/11/2008 12:45:54 PM PDT by GT Vander (I may be retired, but I'm a Soldier 'till I die!)
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Just think of his affect on his unit’s cohesion and morale.....firing squad.


9 posted on 06/11/2008 12:49:10 PM PDT by ElectricStrawberry (27th Infantry Regiment...cut in half during the Clinton years.)
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Six years? How about a noose or firing squad?
10 posted on 06/11/2008 12:51:35 PM PDT by isrul (Help make every day, "Disrespect a muzzie day.")
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Ehren K. Watada was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to Robert Watada and Carolyn Ho. His father served for 10 years as executive director of Hawaii's Campaign Spending Commission and himself refused to serve in the Vietnam War.[5] Ehren Watada attended Punahou School...

Above from wikipedia...note family pattern, and attendance at Hussein's old school.

12 posted on 06/11/2008 12:54:10 PM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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What do you think, is Watada a hero or a criminal?

No question; criminal. He refused to obey a lawful order from his superiors.

14 posted on 06/11/2008 12:54:41 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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1. Why did he enlist knowing there was a war going on ???

2. Why did he re-enlist knowing that there was a war going on ???

3. Do pledges meant nothing to him ????


18 posted on 06/11/2008 1:05:30 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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I was trying to calculate how long the Lt. can look forward to being in uniform. His current efforts before a federal judge will take about a year, then as long as three years for the appeals process, and *then* his court martial, followed by a possible sentence of six years.

He might not get out of the military until 2018. That is, assuming he doesn’t still have any further obligation that he will have to meet as a private, when all is said and done.


19 posted on 06/11/2008 1:08:39 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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Draft-dodgers are one thing, deserters quite another.
Draft-dodgers I can understand, even if I disagree with them but I HATE DESERTERS. It’s much more personal.

This arrogant child of privilege (see wikipedia biography) was not drafted and he knew the deal when he volunteered, that his right to actively oppose policy was suspended for the duration of his service. He accepted this condition of his own free will.
Now, he has deserted his comrades and he has done so under fire. Within living memory, he would have been put against a wall and shot for this.
He still could be if the media-left collapses farther and faster than we expect.


23 posted on 06/11/2008 1:26:06 PM PDT by atomic conspiracy (Victory in Iraq: Worst defeat for activist media since Goebbels shot himself.)
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The sissy boy should be rotting in prison for a long long time. Why isn’t here in jail already?


25 posted on 06/11/2008 1:42:03 PM PDT by vpintheak (Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked. Prov. 25:26)
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Anybody remember this guy? http://www.mikenew.com/


27 posted on 06/11/2008 2:02:16 PM PDT by Tallguy (Tagline is offline till something better comes along...)
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A military where soldiers - officers or otherwise - think they can choose which order to obey and which not to obey, which missions to accept and which not to accept, is chaos that cannot be an effective fighting force. Of course that doesn’t bother a lot of people.

The Army serves a democracy, but the Army is not a democracy.


29 posted on 06/11/2008 2:19:49 PM PDT by Mr. Dough (I'm all in favor of multiculturalism, especially if it involves funny accents!)
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What do you think, is Watada a hero or a criminal?

I think he's a wimp.

32 posted on 06/11/2008 2:37:50 PM PDT by Allegra (If you lived here, you'd be home by now.)
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So here we are 2 1/2 years later and this punk is still sitting fat and pretty while the Army JAG lawyers kick the can down the road. Prediction- Watada will walk, quietly and without official fanfare with an honorable discharge just so the Army can get this scum behind them.


34 posted on 06/11/2008 2:55:26 PM PDT by TADSLOS (The GOP death march to the gravesite is underway.)
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...who's now in legal limbo and being subtly punished at a desk job.

Wow, some punishment, chilling out at I Corps at Lewis while the rest of us slogged it out in Iraq for 15 months.

Word was that Watada had been fired from a couple of other jobs in his battalion even before he started this pathetic crusade of his.

Not exactly a model officer.

37 posted on 06/11/2008 3:10:29 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater (Personal Methane Reclamation: Break wind for energy independence!)
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